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“The issues of mortality and religion that appear in many of the letters offer yet another dimension to Bastiat’s complex personality. The introduction to a collection of letters by Bastiat, says: Bastiat’s letters have a few references to the issue, but not in ways substantiating the above claim. Modern conservatives and Christians have tried to recruit him to their cause posthumously. For someone “absorbed into his soul the essence of the message of Jesus Christ” Bastiat was rather silent about the man.īastiat was raised Catholic, as were most Frenchmen of the day, but he was not particularly interested in religious practice. What you will not find is anything more than a cursory or passing reference to Jesus.
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In Bastiat’s works one will find references to God in general, but mostly in deistic terms. This is really imposing a personal religious agenda on Bastiat and there is a reason the book is short-lack of evidence.
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I quote Alejandro Chaufen: “In the preface of Providence and Liberty, a short book devoted to Bastiat’s Christian views and life, three champions and scholars of the free society, Leonard Liggio, Jacques Garello and Samuel Gregg, wrote that “Bastiat had absorbed into his soul the essence of the message of Jesus Christ: that God is a Creator who so loved the world that He gave us His Only Son.” It is claimed by some that Frédéric Bastiat was a devout Christian, a dubious claim at best.